Day 5 Stories

This is us in front of the museum. The tiles were very slick from the rain and the humidity. I kept thinking, "Please don't break a leg in China!" :)

These are little warriors that were excavated at an Emperor's tomb. Not exactly the "Terra Cotta" warriors, but still really interesting!
Here are our school girl friends who wanted pictures of us at the musuem!

In the taxi, riding home from the museum.Middle school girls walking home for lunch.

Yesterday (Thursday) was another good day. Sarah continues to amaze us and is showing us more of her personality each day. She knows where all the elevators are in the hotel and walks in the right direction to our room after we get off the elevator. I can't even do that! She also points to the door and fusses if I start to walk down the hall with her before Dave comes out of the room. She wants us all to be together! We found out last night that she loves watermelon so she had several pieces at breakfast this morning, plus a fried egg and banana bread.

We had no adoption business so Ike took us to the Jiangxi province museum. It had a lot of ancient pottery from the Ming, Tang, and Song dynasties, plus dinosaur, insect and ocean life exhibits.

Jiangxi province has a tradition for beautiful hand painted pottery and porcelain, so yesterday we decided we would buy a porcelain tea pot set for Sarah here in Jiangxi.

While we were at the museum, a group of high school girls came running up to us and said, "Excuse me, but can we take a picture of you with us?" We just laughed and said, "Sure" so they ran and got Sarah out of her stroller and we posed for pictures with the girls. They wanted a group picture and then individual pictures of them with both me and Dave. It was pretty funny. They were so excited. I think Ike was kind of embarrassed by them, but we thought it was great! I am going to post a picture of them. They just giggled and laughed the entire time they were taking the pictures.

After the museum Ike took us to his favorite restaurant here in Nanchang (called 0791) for lunch. It was very modern and the food was very good. We have tried all sorts of Chinese food. Most of it we like. They serve all of the food piping hot and the main dish is usually on top of a little pot with coals or a sterno can so it stays warm at your table.

We have had eggplant, bean curd, sour potato strings, some sort of green bean, a celery type vegetable, jasmine flower with egg or chicken, spicy noodles, beef dishes, chicken dishes, Chinese steamed buns, and rice, of course. The only chicken we are not fond of is when it comes chopped up in bite size pieces with the bones still in it. It makes it really hard to eat. The food is a lot spicier than we are used to, so Ike usually asks them to cook it very mild for us. It must be working, or we are getting used to the spice, because the last couple of meals have been very good!

We have passed on several food items, including pig's tail, duck tongue (!), an entree cooked in duck's blood, pig trotters, donkey meat, and rabbit.

After lunch we came back to the hotel and took it easy for a while and went swimming. We took a taxi to go to dinner. At dinner, some of the waitresses asked Ike something and then Ike asked us if it was OK if they talked to us in English to practice. Of course, we said. So they asked me where we were from, if we liked Nanchang, etc.

They are college students who are majoring in business and are learning English. They spoke pretty good English and told me how beautiful they think America is and how beautiful the American people are. I told them we think China and its people are beautiful, too. They were very nice and were sweet with Sarah, too.

That's the main news for day 5! Today (day 6--Friday) is our last full day in Nanchang. Saturday we fly to Guangzhou to complete the American end of the adoption.